#4

Friend went to a Nordic Xmas fair the other day and spotted a salmiakki advent calendar. For either wrong people like myself who like the stuff, or true masochists.

#5

Gf’s mum brought me a Dairy Milk one this weekend. She hasn’t been told about my feelings on receiving gifts.

#6

Urgh. A friend of mine brought a load of that back from Norway and took a huge bag to ATP once. Horrid stuff.

#7

Actually Advent began yesterday, you heathen.

#8

Not according to Cadbury’s, it doesn’t…

#9

Apology accepted.

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#10

You’re probably not getting enough ammonia in your life. I like the cream rock they do with salmiakki crystals on the outside. You can also get salmiakki choc-ices in Finland.

#11

Might as well just get a big chocolate bar. Usually neck the whole thing immediately anyway because I have the self control of an untrained puppy, so.

#12

At the age of 11 my parents stopped getting us advent calendars because “we were too old for them”.

Haven’t had one since.

#13

One of my most shameful childhood memories is hiding in my room eating advent calendar chocolates from future days.

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#14

You’re a big boy now, Geoff, you can buy one if you want!

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#15

I’ve just never bothered. Bought my wife one yesterday though but she always forgets to eat them so bangs a week’s worth down on a Sunday evening. I fail to see the point. Although I do love Christmas so anyone getting firmly stuck in with what gives them yuletide glee is fine by me.

#17

There’s quite a lot going on in this story.

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#18

Well liquorice is a laxative …

#19

Buying one for your wife every year counts as having an advent calendar, really, I think.

#20

So many twists.

#21

By opening the bottom of the calendar and sliding the plastic tray out, so the doors stay shut?

I had a friend whose parents would buy her and her bro 1 chocolate advent calendar to share, and they’d have alternating days to make them “learn to share”.

#22

We don’t share it! Although we have one in the house so technically I do I suppose.

#24

I don’t think I was even that subtle. The only other detail of the incident I can clearly remember is that I was wearing my SuperTed pyjamas at the time.

27 years old I etc

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#25

Also available in non-Scandinavian countries

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